You waited and waited and finally got a Nexus S. Given the history of other phones you figured it would be a week or so before you could unlock the Nexus S, and another week before you could root it.

If you buy one of the new Nexus devices – the Nexus 9 or Nexus 6 – and plan to unlock its bootloader upon first boot, so that you can get to tinkering, understand that you may have to enable the “OEM ...

Google seems to be working on a new Advanced Protection feature to block access to Android's Developer Options menu.

The problem was that some people who bought the Pixel 2 directly from Google said the OEM unlocking option within settings was grayed out. This was a bit weird to see, since that option is usually ...